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Speed Summary IJEC Social Commerce Special Edition – Social Shopping Communities
So here’s the second speed summary of the social commerce special edition just published by the respected peer-reviewed International Journal of Electronic Commerce. This second article is about social shopping communities and modelling behaviour with clickstream data from Rainer Olbrich and Christian Holsing from the marketing department of the [...]
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Speed Summary: IJEC Special Edition – Introduction to Social Commerce
So social commerce has just had a credibility-enhancement, with an intellectual injection to accompany the financial injections that the area is already receiving. The respected top peer-reviewed International Journal of Electronic Commerce has just published a special edition on social commerce (access can be purchased [...]
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Show Me the Money! Where’s my Cut of the $30bn Social Commerce Market?
So you’ve probably read the Booz & Co forecast that social commerce revenues will hit $30bn by 2015 (if you haven’t read our speed summary here). But how do you get a piece of the action? The accompanying Booz & Co report suggests that you [...]
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Speed Summary: Putting Social Media to Work (Bain Report) [Download]
Last week we summarised The Ultimate Question 2.0, a handbook on Bain Consulting’s popular open source customer loyalty solution – The Net Promoter System – based on the simple idea that thriving in a customer-driven world of empowered consumers requires a mission-critical pursuit of customer [...]
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Speed Summary: The Social-Powered Enterprise [Download]
The Social-Powered Enterprise: How social media is transforming your most important disciplines is a free ebook from Salesforce with 15 practical recommendations for using social media to enhance sales, marketing and customer service [download]. The sales perspective particularly relevant to B2B – and focuses on lead [...]
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Study Says: Prospects for Google’s G-Commerce Brighter than F-Commerce?
If 2011 saw the rise of f-commerce – Facebook shopping, will 2012 see the rise of g-commerce – shopping with Google? Two new studies find that consumers and retailers alike would prefer selling and shopping with Google rather than Facebook. The first study by ThreatMetrix and [...]
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Consumers, Marketers Differ on Reasons for Facebook Like; Brands are ‘Missing the Boat’ Study Says
For consumers, Facebook’s Like button is a pathway to getting discounts, promotions and special offers. Marketers have a more narcissistic view, according to a new study. To paraphrase actor Sally Fields 1985 Oscar acceptance speech, “They like us. They really, really like us.” Citing the [...]
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What’s Your Brand Value? Facebook Knows Says Booz&Co.
Measuring brand value has always been something of a dark art, says a Booz&Co article. Now, there is a new, easy way to make that determination using an unlikely source, Facebook. The management consulting firm created a simple formula that compares the number of Facebook [...]
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Facebook Friends Don’t Influence Each Other – Or Do They?
So it’s a great headline, ‘Facebook friends don’t influence each other‘ – or as Wired soundbite it, we’re immune to viral marketing. Except that it is wrong. You may be reading reports with similar headlines, covering a new Harvard study ”Social selection and peer influence in [...]
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